The Journal of Aviation Medicine
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I T IS A N H O N O R and privilege to address this great congress of aviation medicine as a representative of both the Aero Medical Association and the United States Air Force. I bring to you the warm felicitations of both organizations and their best wishes for a most successful meeting. The past of aviation medicine and its progress to the realities of space travel .cannot properly be discussed from the point of view of one nation alone. You need only be reminded that the need for and the recognition of aviation medicine as an organized science began on this continent with the interest of many groups, s Therefore, it is most fitting that this Third European and First World Congress of Aviation Medicine take place in such an historic
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